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AI AND MEDIA OP-ED: When AI breaks the news: Trust cannot be automated

Today at 21:34 PM, via Daily Maverick

This May, UNESCO World Press Freedom Day and RightsCon were supposed to come together in Zambia against a backdrop of deep anxiety about the future of journalism and about whether anything resembling a shared digital public space can survive the next decade. Puzzlingly – or perhaps tellingly – the 5,000-people conference about human rights and freedom of expression was cancelled at the last...

Sport

All-rounder Hardie stars as Peshawar win PSL

Today at 21:46 PM, via BBC News

Australia all-rounder Aaron Hardie stars with bat and ball as Peshawar Zalmi beat Hyderabad Kingsmen to win their second Pakistan Super League title.

Sport

Antonelli wins in Miami to extend title lead

Today at 21:05 PM, via BBC News

Mercedes’ Kimi Antonelli holds off Lando Norris in a race-long battle to win the Miami Grand Prix and take a commanding championship lead.

Education

Posting the Ten Commandments in Classrooms

Today at 15:00 PM, via New York Times

Readers discuss a Texas law requiring the display of the Ten Commandments in classrooms. Also: A job seeker’s tale; long movies.

Entertainment

Mercedes’ Kimi Antonelli wins Miami Grand Prix

Today at 21:01 PM, via The Citizen

The race’s start time was brought forward by three hours due to the threat of heavy rainstorms, but it took place in largely hot and humid, overcast conditions.

Science/Tech

It’s Goodbye Time for Jeeves and Ask.com – Relics of Yesterday’s Internet

Today at 21:41 PM, via Slashdot

A 1999 press release bragged “Jeeves” answered 92.3 million questions in just three months. “In the digital wilds of Y2K, we came to him with our most probing questions,” remembers the New York Times — whether it was Britney Spears or tamagotchis: We asked, and he answered: Jeeves, the digital butler of information, the online valet who led us into the depths of cyberspace. Now, like so many...

Science/Tech

Former Nintendo Executive Says Amazon Once Requested ‘Illegal’ Price Discounts

Today at 20:28 PM, via Slashdot

Amazon once tried to pressure Nintendo to break the law, says former Nintendo of America President Reggie Fils-Aimé. At a recent NYU lecture, he describes a conversation with an Amazon executive, Kotaku reports:”Amazon was looking to get bigger into the video game space,” said Fils-Aimé. “Amazon’s mentality back then is they wanted to have the lowest price out in the marketplace, even lower...

Science/Tech

ChatGPT Became So Obsessed With Goblins That OpenAI Had to Intervene

Today at 18:34 PM, via Slashdot

The Wall Street Journal reports that OpenAI “recently gave its popular ChatGPT strict instructions. Stop talking about goblins.”Recent models of the artificial-intelligence chatbot have been bringing up the creatures in conversations with users seemingly out of the blue, as well as gremlins, trolls and ogres. The goblin-speak caught the attention of programmers, who are often heavy users of the...

Science/Tech

South Africa’s Draft AI Policy Withdrawn Due to ‘Fictitious’ AI-Generated Citations

Today at 17:34 PM, via Slashdot

An official in South Africa withdrew a draft of the country’s national AI policy, reports a local newspaper, “after it was found the draft policy was compiled using AI, which cited academic articles that were ‘fictitious’.”Earlier this month, minister in the Presidency Khumbudzo Ntshavheni announced cabinet had approved the draft policy for public comment. [Ntshavheni] said the policy seeks to...

Motoring

Audi’s Formula 1 team off to a tough start

Today at 08:59 AM, via TopAuto

Audi’s F1 boss said entering the sport via a legacy team has proved more difficult than starting with a clean slate, as the German carmaker runs up against more established rivals.

Motoring

Trouble at South African Airways

Today at 07:00 AM, via TopAuto

The sudden resignation of SAA’s CEO and reports of criminal syndicates stealing aircraft parts have cast doubts over the airline’s viability.